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The West
1996 · TV series · documentary · 80 min episodes · 1 season
The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and the executive producer was Ken Burns. The film originally aired on PBS in September 1996.
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Buffalo also feature prominently in The West, another fantastic Ken Burns documentary.
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-west/
The latest Ken Burns documenatary, "The American Buffalo" tells the story of the near-total extermination of the Bison, and by extension, the Native American Indian way of life, and includes many of these photos. I felt like it was a better presentation of the reality of the West in 3 hours than the 8-episode "The West" from the 1990s, which only spent a scant few minutes on the Bison. Highly recommended.
Perhaps it would also be worth mentioning Ken Burns and his documentaries.
They're absolutely worth watching and gives BBC a run for its money.
Perhaps start with The West and then move on to Civil War. My personal favorite was perhaps the one on Jazz, made in 2001.
If you've watched Ken Burns documentary series* (it's on netflix) about The West, the comical anecdote about a faked attack by the clearly irrelevant natives isn't so funny any more.
*I had to give up after a few episodes, it was too depressing.